The Ballad Of Mul Rise Of A Warrior

Mulan is called to adventure when her old, feeble father is drafted into the war. According to Campbell, the Call to Adventure is when “something occurs which leads to a change in the hero’s life. The hero must face an enemy or his destiny, obtain something, or otherwise take a new path in life. Many times the hero is ‘called’ to the adventure by another person or is somehow forced into the journey.” One man

After reading the Woman Warrior and watching the movie Mulan I have noticed many things that were the same but many things that were also very different about the stories. But among the many different variations the three that stood out most to me was the training, origin story, and war. Because all of these characteristics play such a big role to the story its very easy to notice and tell the difference between the two stories.

The final scenes of Ip Man and Fist of Legend are much more than just epic fight scenes between the protagonist and antagonist. These fight scenes are the culmination of Chinese struggle against Japanese oppression. The overarching focus of this paper will be directed towards each films use of martial arts as a medium for Chinese nationalism. The overall method for introducing Chinese nationalism to each film is relatively similar. The main difference between the Chinese nationalism established in these films, compared to films before the Cultural Revolution is, Ip Man and Fist of Legend use nationalism as a tool for commercial success rather than promoting ideology. The directors create tones of national pride to establish an emotional

To begin, Wild Orchid and the Disney interpretation of "Mulan" can be compared in their battle outlook of the story. In both stories Mulan goes to fight in her father's place. For example, in chapter 11 of Wild Orchid it states, "I would go to fight in his place." As with the Disney Interpretation of "Mulan" the sequence that showed Mulan departing to fight, Mulan had decided that she would go to fight in his place. This is evidence because it clearly states how the battle scenario would turn out. While the battle scenario does differentiate between both literature works the way the battle starts is always with Mulan going to battle. Another way the literature pieces compare with each other is that in both the movie and the book the Huns die and Mulan is the savior of China and is asked by the emperor to be granted a wish of her heart's desire.

Mulan goes off on her own, knowing the consequences she will have to face if she is caught attending the war as a woman. The ancestors awaken and they all argue about the situation that Mulan is in and how she has went off alone. They explain how Mulan, going to the war, will dishonor the Fa family, even further than she has done when she was meeting the matchmaker. The very scene of them discussing has a very dark and gray color to it, representing the despair that the ancestors all feel about Mulan participating in the war. They do not agree with the attitude and decisions of Mulan. One of the ancestors even said that she did not like Mulan from the moment she was born and told the other that she was a child full of trouble. This depicts

The story of Mulan was inspired by an ancient Chinese ballad from the Song Dynasty, called the Ballad of Mulan (ancientstandard.com). In the movie Mulan’s homeland is being attacked by The Huns. Everyone is here village is afraid and begins to gearing up for an imminent war. Every family is required to provide a member from their respective families to help defend themselves against the invading Huns. Mulan’s father is the only male in her family and decides he must fight and defend his village against their approaching enemy. The problem is he is old and has previous war wounds that makes his chances of surviving such a war is unlikely. Recently rejected by her matchmaker and potential husband Mulan decides to disguise herself as a male and represent her family in her father’s place. This decision leads Mulan on an uncertain and dangerous journey that teaches her and the movie viewers many valuable lessons.

In this intense and heart-warming movie titled, Mulan, together the duo overcome the stigmas placed upon them and defeat the merciless Huns. It is a movie that inspires

In the mythical movie, Mulan proved to continue to use spiritual and religious prayer. Throughout the movie, Mulan wanted to be known as an honor to her family. Instead, Mulan proves to be a dishonor to everyone she comes into contact with. Although, everything she did seemed to furoate her family member, townspeople, citizens, and even the military.

We need to understand that the filial piety presented in the movie with the one in the original legend is different, because in the movie Disney portrayed back the filial piety based on American people’s understanding and stereotypes on Confucianism. In this way Mulan described as a free individual who does not want to be bounded by the strict rules of Confucianism. Although, most of the time Mulan expresses her refusal to Confucianism, she still represents the value of filial piety to her father by disguising herself as a man warrior and taking her father’s duty in a war. In this sense, Disney tried to show Mulan’s dutiful character by bringing out Mulan’s “manly” and rebellious personality. However, in order to strengthen Mulan’s head-strong personality, Disney deliberately lessened the value of obedience and replaced it with Mulan’s pursuit of identity. In this sense, Mulan is described as being confused of her real identity. She is given two difficult choices between fulfilling her role as a potential wife or listening to her own calling (She wants to find her own love without the interference of other people, including her parents). Moreover, the Ballad never explicitly tell the relationship between Mulan and her parents; but everyone can assume that Mulan does not have “a close relationship” with her parents unlike the one depicted in the Disney’s version. Because in filial

Although viewers have their prejudices on film adaptations, they normally attack the structure of the story, exclaiming that film did not stay faithful to the original story; only when a role is poorly cast do the scrutinizing viewers point out the acting. In some cases, however, the actor’s performance is so precise that it, in itself, carries the

Three different movies set in three different times, yet they are united by one theme that is history. This analysis will focus on how Spirited Away, The Emperor and the Assassin, and Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons are part of a modern and ancient history that are still practiced today. Even though these movies are a mixture of legends, fictions, and facts we can still appreciate the meaning behind each story. Furthermore, this analysis will enhance East Asian’s historical meaning.

Even if Gawain is able to abstain from having sex with the daughter in “The Knight of the Sword”, it is only because his life is at risk, not because he is showing any sort of respect towards the young girl. Had the threat of the sword not been quite literally hanging over his head, Gawain would have indulged himself with the daughter, not just to satisfy his own sexual needs but also to preserve his reputation as a chivalrous knight. The language of his argument is also telling of what his reputation entails. Gawain’s greatest problem he sees it as his responsibility to “do something” to the young girl. However, although Gawain never truly inquires if the daughter would want to have sex with him, she does not seem unwilling. Rather, she insists that the pair do not have sex so that they knight will not be killed. After she warns Gawain of his father’s plot, she reveals her feelings towards Gawain, she stating, “Now you should be forewarned by me, for you are so courteous and wise that it would be a very great pity and it would grieve me ever afterwards if you were killed” (“The Knight” 116-117). Gawain’s knightly behavior saves him because the young girl is willing to risk disobeying her father to save Gawain. The daughter’s act deviates from the patriarchal norm of obeying her father, which suggests Gawain’s honorable conduct inspires the daughter to decide her own faith. However, the daughter ultimately never obtains autonomy and her tragic fate is decided by her finial

The first element I noticed the producers used in the movie was music. The film starts with an arrangement in which Mulan is dressed and made up to meet the town matchmaker to find her marriage prospects. In the patriarchal system, this is the only way a lady can convey honor to her family. The sequence incorporates a song, which Mulan's family and the town sing together, with these lyrics: “A girl can bring her family great honor in one way by striking a good match and this could be the day”. The meeting with the matchmaker is a fiasco and as she leaves, the matchmaker shouts to Mulan "You will never bring your family respect!" Mulan feels sad and battles between needing to bring her family honor and to be herself.

All this is included in this article. And not only religion but also other areas like culture, rituals, customs, traditions, family, etc is shown through movies and all these are also as important as religion and which play a significant role in movies…

So, in order to reach a balance between Disney tradition and European culture, they made a number of changes to retain Disney’s image while adapting their culture.